The Schools’ Collection

This is a collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s. More information

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  1. Scéal U

    Nearly a hundred years ago it was known that a ghost used be seen near Kilnamora chapel on the Caherbane road.

    CBÉS 0776

    Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill

    Kilmaley, Co. Clare

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  2. Scéal V

    About a quarter of a mile from our home in Kilmaley is the townland of Gurtaganniv.

    CBÉS 0776

    Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill

    Kilmaley, Co. Clare

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  3. Scéal W

    About eighty years ago there was a curate in Kilnamona named Father Joe Meade.

    CBÉS 0776

    Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill, Tomás Mac Giolla Pádraig

    Kilmaley, Co. Clare

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  4. Scéal X

    When my father was a young man - a little over twenty he had a greyhound which he and his neighbours believed to be a pretty good one..

    CBÉS 0776

    Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill

    Kilmaley, Co. Clare

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  5. Scéal Y

    A good many years there lived, about two miles from Kilrush a man called Storcaí Sheáin Howe.

    CBÉS 0776

    Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill

    Kilmaley, Co. Clare

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  6. Scéal Z

    When my father was a child eleven or twelve years of age a man named Murty Keating was considered the best hurler in Kilmaley.

    CBÉS 0776

    Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill

    Kilmaley, Co. Clare

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  7. Scéal AA

    Fadó riamh biodh spioradh le feiscint i mBeál Átha Cailleach...

    CBÉS 0776

    Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill

    Kilmaley, Co. Clare

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  8. Scéal BB

    One of our nearest neighbours in Kilmaley was a man named Thomas McGann.

    CBÉS 0776

    Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill, Seán Devereux

    Kilmaley, Co. Clare

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  9. Scéal CC

    Once a young chap in Caraher was coming home late at night from his cuairt.

    CBÉS 0776

    Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill, Pádraig Ó Ceárnaigh

    Kilmaley, Co. Clare

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  10. Scéal DD

    Is ó O'Callaghan's Mills i nOirthear an Chláir a tháinig athair mo shin-shean-athar go Cill Mháille.

    CBÉS 0776

    Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill

    Kilmaley, Co. Clare

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  11. Scéal EE

    About ninety years ago tenant farmers in Clare had not the right to dispose of their interest or good will in a farm.

    CBÉS 0776

    Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill

    Kilmaley, Co. Clare

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  12. Scéal F.F.

    About a hundred years ago (about thirty years before Miceál Mac Conamara went as an apprentice to Kilrush) there was a widow living near Carrigaholt.

    CBÉS 0776

    Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill

    Kilmaley, Co. Clare

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  13. Superstitions

    In Kilmaley Friday was regarded as a lucky day to begin work.

    CBÉS 0776

    Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill

    Kilmaley, Co. Clare

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  14. Pisreoga

    When Micheál was a youngster he lived in Drumanure Kilmaley, later he moved to Loughburke and from there he came to Knockadangan.

    CBÉS 0776

    Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill

    Kilmaley, Co. Clare

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  15. Pisreoga Eile

    CBÉS 0776

    Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill, Ristéard Mac Cormaic

    Kilmaley, Co. Clare

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  16. Pisreoga Eile

    CBÉS 0776

    Bean Uí Cheallaigh, Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill

    Kilmaley, Co. Clare

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  17. Scéal Eile

    CBÉS 0776

    Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill

    Kilmaley, Co. Clare

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  18. Pisreoga Eile

    CBÉS 0776

    Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill

    Kilmaley, Co. Clare

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  19. Na Sióga

    CBÉS 0776

    Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill

    Kilmaley, Co. Clare

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  20. Na Sióga

    CBÉS 0776

    Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill, Micheál Ó Cathasaigh

    Kilmaley, Co. Clare

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